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Comment on A Difference in Love by roberty bob https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/a-difference-in-love/#comment-142273
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:04:00 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6801#comment-142273It is just as Paul the Apostle says, “. . . that you, being grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge . . . .”
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Comment on New Book on Paul’s Speech at Mars Hill by reiterations https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/15/new-book-on-pauls-speech-at-mars-hill/#comment-142155
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:51:03 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6795#comment-142155I’m impressed that there’s a person walking the earth with a cool name like Flaven Pardigon!
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Comment on Isaac’s two blessings by greenbaggins https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/isaacs-two-blessings/#comment-142094
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:06:18 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6785#comment-142094Bob, no, I haven’t established that Burroughs’ interpretation is a good one. I don’t have time at the moment. I merely thought it was interesting.

As to your wisecrack, there is no need of apology. I didn’t find it offensive. :-)

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Comment on Knowledge of God Impossible to Eradicate by reiterations https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/knowledge-of-god-impossible-to-eradicate/#comment-142081
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 01:22:45 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6787#comment-142081A good example that demonstrates why Charnock got the big money.
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Comment on Isaac’s two blessings by roberty bob https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/isaacs-two-blessings/#comment-142078
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:40:06 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6785#comment-142078Have you and Burroughs established that “dew of heaven” means something like “saving grace from heaven?” Might it simply mean the dew that nourishes the soil so that it may yield much fruit?

Isaac’s blessing to Jacob is that Jacob will live in a fertile land that will bring forth fruit [i.e. fatness] because it will be watered with the dew of heaven. Esau will not share in that blessing as he will live in dry and thirsty land away from the dew of heaven which would otherwise nourish the soil.

I suppose you could put a pious spin on this, as Burroughs does, and interpret “dew of heaven” as spiritual blessings and “earth’s fatness” as carnal blessings. But why would you do that? Would you really preach the Genesis 27 text that way? I wouldn’t.

I apologize for my wisecrack about heavenly mindedness. Burroughs was a beloved pastor to several congregations, including one in Holland. He was a good and godly man.

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Comment on Isaac’s two blessings by greenbaggins https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/isaacs-two-blessings/#comment-142076
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:38:07 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6785#comment-142076Bob, just because Esau might not have experienced a blessing doesn’t mean that the change of order is of no consequence. For instance, couldn’t it be part of the non-blessing that Esau would be more earthly minded?

As to the heavenly minded bit, I daresay that most of the Puritans got that charge at one point or another! You’ll probably agree with me that the problem today is that most people are so earthly minded as to be of no heavenly good!

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Comment on Isaac’s two blessings by roberty bob https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/isaacs-two-blessings/#comment-142075
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:01:25 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6785#comment-142075I wonder if it was ever said of Jeremiah Burroughs that he was too heavenly minded to be of much earthly good?

Just jesting, of course!

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Comment on Isaac’s two blessings by roberty bob https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/isaacs-two-blessings/#comment-142073
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:11:33 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6785#comment-142073As you have said, what Isaac said to Esau can be disputed. Either Esau would be blessed with the same heavenly dew and earthly fatness as his brother Jacob [as expressed by translations that go with “of” or “from”] or Esau would be deprived of such heavenly dew and earthly fatness [as expressed by translations that go with “away from”].

It does not make sense to me that Isaac would also bless Esau with the same blessing that he put upon Jacob; so, I believe that Esau would experience the curse and deprivation of being away from the heavenly dew and earthly fatness with which Jacob was blessed.

The switching of order, of which Jeremiah Burroughs makes much, is therefore of no consequence; it is merely coincidental. I do not doubt that the puritan mind was wide open to pages and pages of this kind of pious admonition!

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Comment on The King of Knowledge by Steve Drake https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/the-king-of-knowledge/#comment-142066
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:53:37 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6783#comment-142066@ David #1,

Why are progressives more inclusive and welcoming in relationships than conservative Christians tend to be?

I’m not trying to be flippant here David, but could it be that sin loves the sight, smell, and taste of its own corruption?

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Comment on The King of Knowledge by reiterations https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/the-king-of-knowledge/#comment-142062
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:19:36 +0000http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/?p=6783#comment-142062As I understand it, though, Aristotle (and other ancient Greek philosophers) probably had philosophy in his mind rather than theology as we understand the term today.
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